Sentence examples for fire detector from inspiring English sources

The engine room is not manned and there was no remote fire detector, so by the time the crew discovered the fire it was too late to stop it.

At first, the news that came in on the morning radio shows seemed tragic but comprehensible: These were deaths that could have been prevented, investigators reminded the public, with a simple, cheap fire detector.

Now, a beetle thought to be able to detect fires from as far away as 80 kilometers has inspired an ingenious and cheap new forest fire detector.

The jewel beetle, Melanophila acuminate, is a living fire detector: It can sense forest fires from afar, moving in quickly to lay its eggs in the smoldering bark of burnt trees, where its young develop virtually free of competition.

Previous works neglected the aircraft cargo compartment ventilation, however, in many real cases, the ventilation condition is expected to alter the fire characteristics which can affect the activation of fire detector.

But alerts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) received via independently-manufactured weather radios can provide users with a potentially lifesaving heads-up before any such event, even waking them with an alarm much like a fire detector.

The smoke and fire detectors inside his house are even more important.

Small fire detectors hidden in trees should add to the anti-poaching unit's reputation for clairvoyance.

In that application they transmit data between devices such as thermostats, fire detectors and some automated factory equipment.

He'll explain how a beetle can teach you to harvest water in the desert or make fire detectors more sensitive.

A spokesman for the Fire Department said Monday evening that it was not known whether there were working fire detectors in the building.